Charles baxter and albert schrader



(No Model.)

0. BAXTER & A. SOHRADER. FENCE STAY WEAVING DEVICE.

Nd. 606,266. Patented June 28, 18918.

Inventors m ag.- (M7 4/ d /AWL W4 MJ /QA Attorney6 CHARLES BAXTER AND ALBERT 'SGHRADER, OF VAUKESI-IA, WISCONSIN; SAID SCI-IRADER ASSIGNOR TO SAID BAXTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,266, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed August 9, 1897. Serial No. 64:7,568. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that we, CHARLES BAXTER and ALBERT SOHRADER, citizens of the United States, residing at WVaukesha, in the county of Waukesha and State of WVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for WVeaving Wire-Fence Stays, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in devices for weaving wire-fence stays.

The object of our invention is to diminish the labor of coiling the stay-wire around the line-wires of the fence.

In the following description reference is bad to the accompanying drawings, inwhich-- Figure 1 is an elevation of our invention as viewed from the side bearing the actuat ing-handle. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same as viewed from the front or side opposite that on which the operator stands, the invention being shown as it is applied to the fence. Fig. 3 is a sectional view drawn on linemmof Fig. 2.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout the several views.

A is a supporting-bar provided with a handle B at one end.

0 is a crank provided with a shaft D, supported in bearings in the bar A and having a gear-wheel E rigidly keyed thereon. F is a second gear-wheel, trunnioned to the opposite end of the bar A from the handle B. The gear-wheel F and its hub G are provided with a slot H, and the trunnion I is provided with a recess or channel J, reaching to or beyond its axial center. On the opposite side of the gearwheel from the slot J We have secured a spindle-supporting wire-engaging frame consisting in the offset bar K, connecting-bar L, and spindle-carrying bar M, the extreme end of which is provided with a suitable notch N for engaging the line-wire, the base of this notch being in line with the channel J in the trunnion I.

O is a spindle adapted to receive and support the coil of stay-wire.

In operating the device the stay-wire is placed in coiled form on the spindle O and one end engaged around the upper line-wire of the fence. The device is thendrawn downwardly, unwinding the coil, and the second line-wire of the fence engagedin the channel J of the trunnion I and notch N of the spindle-bar M, the gear-wheel slot H being alined with the trunnion-recess J to permit the entrance of the wire. By then turning the crank C motion is communicated to the spindle-supporting frame through the gear-wheels E and F to rotate the frame and coil the stay-wire around the line-wire. WVhen the coil is com- .pleted and the gear-wheel slot H realined with the recess J, the device is removed to the next line-wire and the operation repeated.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a supporting-bar provided with a notch in one end adapted to engage the linewire of a fence, a wheel journaled to said bar and provided with a slot corresponding to the notch in the bar, a laterally-proj ectin g frame carried by said wheel and provided with a wire-engagin g notch in its extreme end, a spindle mounted in said frame in a position parallel to that of the linewire for holding the coil of stay-wire, and suitable crank-and-gear mechanism for actuating the slotted gear-wheel and frame, sub stantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signa tures in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BAXTER. ALBERT SOHRADER. 

